The Effects of Continuing Prostitution on Prostitution Women, Community Women, and Anti-prostitution Activists: Focused on Their Experiences in Wanwol-dong, Busan

In this study, the Busan Wanwol-dong the red light district, the first brothel in Korea, continues to this day under the connivance and management of the central and local governments. Laws and norms are inconsistent, ‘Wanwol-dong’ itself has a mixture of residential and commercial areas, or is closely connected, affecting the residents of the community. In this regard, I studied what the experience of the prostitution women, local community women, and anti-prostitution activists, who are directly victims of Wanwol-dong, by the continuation of the Wanwol-dong prostitution gathering place, and what the impact was depending on the location. To this end, 9 research participants who were closely related to the Busan Wanwol- dong the red light district were selected and conducted as a case study method. The research participants' experience of social control, masculine culture, and connivance and management, which are formal regulations, due to the continuation of the Busan Wanwol the red light district differs depending on the location of women, Prostitution women, community women, and anti- sex trafficking activists repeatedly practice femininity of the 'protected sex' and 'non-protected sex', and as they become gendered, they internalize double norms and become marginalized. However, anti-prostitution activists challenge patriarchal double norms and cause cracks in the empowerment of sex while eradicating prostitution and closing down the Wanwol-dong assembly point in Busan while supporting prostitution women. In addition, prostitution in a specific area spreads the conventional wisdom that prostitution is considered natural, and the demand for sex purchase increases. As it becomes insensitive to violence against women, it strengthens violence against women and puts them in an inferior position, deepening gender empowerment. The Busan Wanwol-dong the red light district is directly and indirectly connected to the local community, such as violence against women and illegal acts, as residential and commercial areas develop through acquiescence and management, which are formal regulations of the government and local governments. Indifference to or concealment of prostitution. In addition, as the system and norms in the local community are inconsistent with each other, the law does not play a role, which is the cause of the persistence of the Busan Wanwol-dong the red light district.